Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

  • Municipal Systems Act, 2000, Municipal Staff Regulations, 2021:
    • Skills audit must be conducted once every five-years within 24 months from the election of the new council of a municipality.
    • A municipality must conduct a skills analysis using programmes or systems determined by the Minister to ascertain the skills needs of staff members in respect of their current roles.
  • Every employee must do a skills audit to identify skills and training and development needs based on specific competency.
Yes. The training manual will be on the landing page of the system.
Old information will be migrated to the enhanced system. Municipalities to provide ID’s and email address of municipal employees to enable the migration process.
For protection of personal information, manual questionnaires will not be allowed (discuss with IT)
The information on the enhanced Gapskill system is secure in terms of POPIA… (IT to add)
In terms of POPIA, only the owner of the profile will have access to their information.
Old information will be migrated to the enhanced system. Municipalities to provide ID’s and email address of municipal employees to enable the migration process.
No. All employees will have to do the competence assessment in line with the MSR on the enhanced system.
Email addresses have replaced the municipal codes. System requires uploading of documents (e.g. certificates)
You are able to save and upload attachments at a later stage.
Search button will assist users to find schools and higher learning institutions.
Search button will assist users to find their occupations.
Users must send an email to the system administrator to request information to be added. Emails should be sent to: gapskillssupport@cogta.gov.za
Users must send an email to the system administrator for their queries. Emails should be sent to: gapskillssupport@cogta.gov.za